Contains: Introduction / Ian Watt -- [General] -- Jane Austen / Virginia Woolf -- A note on Jane Austen / C.S. Lewis -- A long talk about Jane Austen / Edmund Wilson -- [Studies of particular novels] -- On Sense and sensibility / Ian Watt -- Critical realism in Northanger Abbey / Alan D. McKillop -- Light and bright and sparkling : irony and fiction in Pride and prejudice / Reuben A. Brower -- Irony as discrimination : Pride and prejudice / Marvin Mudrick -- The humiliation of Emma Woodhouse / Mark Schorer -- Emma / Arnold Kettle -- Mansfield Park / Lionel Trilling -- What become of Jane Austen? (Mansfield Park) / Kingsley Amis -- Persuasion / Andrew H. Wright -- [Special topics] -- Jane Austen and the peerage / Donald J. Greene -- Regulated hatred : an aspect of the work of Jane Austen / D.W. Harding.
